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What does draggle-tailed mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word draggle-tailed? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (of a person or other animal) Slatternly, untidy, unkempt.
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The Pink Moir Antique was torn into a draggle-tailed pink train.
No one knew of it save Bough Van Busch and the draggle-tailed woman.
Bill Sykes likes to be tried in a black coat, and draggle-tailed Sal smooths her tangled locks before she enters the dock.
All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.
Running down the long hall, she peeped out at both doors, but saw nothing feathered except a draggle-tailed chicken under a burdock leaf.
People go by, so drenched and draggle-tailed that I have often wondered how they found the heart to undress.

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